Immortal Palace of Eternal Life

Chapter 1036: The Old Affairs of Six Dynasties Are Not Merely Flowing Water

After Ink Plum left, the true lords who received the summons did not dare delay. One after another, they rushed to this three-courtyard residence and were received in turn.

Some were coerced, some were enticed.

Liu Yu sized people up and dealt with them accordingly. Different true lords were met with different attitudes.

Based on the intelligence he held, he laid out all kinds of different conditions.

Using both carrot and stick, after meeting one person after another, the defense arrangements for the fourth battle zone gradually became clear.

Power is the ability to carry out one's own will smoothly in a network of relationships, regardless of other people's objections.

Its most direct source is force and violence.

In the cultivation world, force does not come from the masses below, but more often from oneself. That made it naturally stable, almost impossible to be overthrown or overturned from below.

Unless one's own side had problems, causing a drastic decline in strength.

Liu Yu was precisely such a person. His own strength placed him among the strongest in the yuan ying realm, and there were even faint rumors calling him the "number one true lord."

So if necessary, he could use the power in his hands without restraint, calmly exerting influence over one high-level cultivator after another, directly or indirectly affecting the behavior and fate of countless cultivators.

With both status and supreme strength in hand.

Under such circumstances, arranging the battle zone's defense and repeatedly negotiating with those nascent soul old monsters was still somewhat troublesome, but overall it went fairly smoothly.

After all, Liu Yu, as an alliance elder, had already stated that he would send his junior brothers, concubines, friends, and several other yuan ying cultivators to the front lines to take part in the battle.

With that, even the most cunning nascent soul old monster could not pick out a single flaw.

If even a dignified alliance elder was sacrificing this much, how could these true lords, who were not even close to being great cultivators, fail to show something?

If there were anyone who wanted to stir up trouble, Liu Yu did not mind taking direct action and using one chicken to warn the monkeys, or striking the mountain to frighten the tiger.

And for those sent to extremely dangerous areas, he did not mind secretly providing some compensation, just like he had done for Ink Plum and Yellow Brow before.

A thousand gold pieces spent will come back again!

After all, the most important thing right now was to stabilize the battle zone and buy time for cultivation. For that, it was entirely worthwhile to give up a few elixirs and spiritual objects that were not being used anyway.

Setting an example, coercion and temptation, soft and hard tactics, secret compensation...

With all kinds of methods used, even the unruly nascent soul old monsters were handled into complete obedience and arranged clearly and properly.

Today, the residence was crowded with visitors, with the formations fully activated to allow people in and out.

One true lord left, and another entered. Before and after, there were at least twenty or thirty people.

"Tap, tap~"

As the footsteps grew clearer, yet another person passed through the entrance hall and arrived in the main hall, appearing before Liu Yu.

He wore a light yellow combat outfit, with the flame emblem of the Yuan Yang Sect embroidered on his clothes. He carried himself steadily and looked full of energy.

It was Yan Kai, who had come after receiving the message.

"One day apart feels like three autumns."

"It was clearly only eight or nine days from beginning to end, yet it feels as though time passed especially slowly."

"Even though I remained in the sect, I also heard about Senior Brother's duel of magic with a pinnacle true lord. It must have been extremely dangerous."

"Senior Brother wasn't injured, was he?"

Though only a few days had passed, it felt like years.